SERMONS IN EPIGRAMS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 87, 24 September 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

SERMONS IN EPIGRAMS.

BILLY SUNDAY'S OUTSPOKEN

appeals. Thousands of Americans are flocking to hear the extraordinary sermons given hy Billy Sunday, an evangelist who tills to overflowing every church in which he preaches. His unconventional and outspoken views <in religion have aroused tremendous interest all over the United States, and some of Billy Sunday's most striking pulpit utterances are given below - Morality isn't the light; it is only the polish on the candlestick. * * * Some persons think they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious. * * * If I was a devil I would rather live in a good, decent hog than in lots of men. * * * The man who lives for himself .none will be the sole mourner at his own funeral. # * * There's no better anchorage on God's earth, young fellow, th;\n yom mother's apron-string. * • * Hugging and kissing a poodle i: mighty small business compared to moulding the life of a child. * • * When your heart is breaking you don't want the dancing-master or saloon keeper, you want the preacher. * # * Going to church doesn't make s «nm. i Christian any more than going to a parage makes him an automobile. # * * What the Church needs is not a larger membership, a new carpet, or a bi fa szer organ, but more men who knoiv how to pray. * # * think when at they put clods on your coffin and your w-rfw and children go home, all they remember are your curses and blows. *' * * It's easy for you to sit in the cushioned pew in church and *ing "Resell. 1 the Perishing" and never stretch forth a hand to -o it. * * * The practice of "make up" amongst the young women of the States is so common that if you kiss the modern girl yon stand a chance of dying of painter's colic. « * * Old men, young men, boys, what 10 you < tiss for? '! doesn't do you any good, gains you nothing in business >; society; it loses you the esteem ot nun.